Palantir Hires Former UK Labour Veteran With NHS Deal in Limbo
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Bringing a former Labour deputy leader into Palantir’s UK operation underlines that big public-sector AI and data contracts are now political projects as much as technical ones. If you’re selling into health or government, budget for coalition-building and narrative work, not just RFP responses.
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